For the next few days I will add overviews of some of the useful walking guides available for your Islandwalking pleasure. All of these has been used by myself. Starting off with “Walking the Greek Islands” (fitting title!) by Graf Editions. These are most of Dieter Graf’s books translated into English:

These are handy books, but many walks are difficult to follow, partly because of lack of updates, but also because the books are not extremely well written in the first place. Or lost in translation? One would expect that the addition of instructive pictures would be helpful, but unfortunately they too rarely are.

See Book Shop.

For this years expeditions these are the walking guides I will use. It will come as no surprise that Sunflower’s Landscape Guides are heavily represented on this list. These books are also added to my Book Shop!

Landscapes of Algrave:

Landscapes of Costa Brava:

Landscapes of Eastern Provence:

Walk & Eat Kefalonia:

Introducing a great culinary achievement from MrWalker, immodestly self-titled as “MrWalker’s Fetaburger”:

pure beef burgers, frozen
hamburger buns
Tabasco sauce
Greek feta-cheese
garlic sliced thinly
onion (shallots recommended) sliced thinly
dry oregano

Select your favorite pure beef burgers (make them yourself, or buy the best frozen ones you can find) and hamburger buns (white bread). While the beef burgers are still frozen, marinate one (or both) sides with Tabasco sauce. The sauce will stay put as it freezes directly on the surface. The burgers should then be grilled in a regular kitchen oven. Other kinds of barbecue can be used, but the heat must come from above. When almost done, put a thick slice of (preferably) real Greek feta-cheese (you can select any brand of feta here, depending on taste and availability). Let the cheese fry with the burger for the last couple of minutes.

Before putting the feta on the burger, cover it with a few thin slices of garlic and some chopped or sliced onion (shallots recommended) and put lots of (dry) oregano on top.

To drink: Preferably Retsina, of course

A really simple, but still very, very tasty meal!

As I have previously announced elsewhere, Islandwalking.com looks forward to another active walking year with many new interesting locations.

And be sure, we will be here throughout this year and in many (hopefully!) years to come. The Islandwalking.com domain has been renewed for another five years, and hosting will continue on bluehost for another three years.

But what are the interesting new locations for 2010? Time to lift the veil. Surprising enough, Greece will not be in focus this year! Instead I have finally decided to investigate some coastal areas in and close to the Mediterranean. For this year I plan to visit the Algarve (Lagos), Nice (with the eastern Provence) and Barcelona (with Costa Brava). Of course I cannot leave Greece all alone so there will be at least one Greek island also in 2010. I am missing quite a few islands in the Ionian, and time has come for Kefalonia.

Stay Tuned!

These pages are FREE, and will always be. But what this site is NOT is a free advertising board for COMMERCIAL SITES. I get tons of requests from the most idiotic and unrelated sites. Also from some very demanding and particularly unsympathetic individuals. As there is no way I will spend any more time at all answering any of these, I can only repeat what I have already put in my DISCLAIMER: No requests for links to commercial sites (camouflaged as “link exchange”) will ever be answered. NO answer is THE answer.

Or what about this: If you are so eager about Link Exchange, then YOU link to ME first, then we can talk… Ha ha ha…

These pages started off in 1997, but their early history is lost in the mists of the early internet. However, from 1999 things started to take form, and archived snapshots also start to appear. The earliest recorded shape of things can be viewed at http://web.archive.org/web/19990203083828/http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Trails/1744/. Not fully functional of course, but you get the idea.

As previously announced, the old bulletin board can now be considered outdated. News from Islandwalking.com will from now on take a more modern form, as in this weblog.